June 29, 2016

Thank you for coming out to the Naperville Growing Place last Saturday for the Art in the Garden festival. As usual, it was a wonderful (although H O T!) day. It was very nice to visit with those of you who already own a “jen” and came back for another or just to say hello… and to those of you who purchased an item for the first time this year, I look forward to seeing you again!

Remember to contact me if you have an item of your own you’d like freshened up or to check on my inventory to paint you something I have.

June 9, 2016

The annual Growing Place Gardener’s Art Festival is coming up fast. Saturday, June 25, the doors will open at 9 a.m. at the 25w471 Plank Road, Naperville, Illinois, IL location.

I will be located on the east side of the front lawn. I’m very excited to be back this year and hope to see you there. I’ll have my always-popular assortment of garden-inspired goods including watering cans, stools, chairs and more. There’s also a good chance I may have some additional India-inspired items, so be sure to come and say hello.

Watch here for updates and photos of what I’ll be bringing to the show.

April 9, 2014

Thanks to my friend Cindy who I haven’t seen in years which is hard to believe, I had a “shopper” a couple weekends ago. In conversation at work, Cindy’s friend Jenny mentioned she was looking for a unique gift for her mom’s birthday. Edited story…Cindy showed Jenny my website and blog and now I am writing this post!

Thanks to Jenny for stopping by to shop “the shop” for a gift for her mom. It was a pretty Saturday afternoon and the experience went just exactly as I had always hoped it would when someone made an appointment to come. I was thrilled to have a guest, Jenny was very excited to find not only the white container (pictured below on the left), but also a pitcher that I had filled with fresh flowers. Ironically enough it’s a pitcher that Cindy gave me to paint! I love karma. She took the pitcher water, flowers and all.

In an email exchange after her visit, Jenny told me

She ABSOLUTELY loved them, she was a little sad to be turning xx so they brightened her day! Thanks again for an amazing gift for her!

I’m sure I’ve said it before, but that is a true gift. I love when people are excited about buying something I’ve painted. And I hope they will enjoy it for years to come.

Reminder: I will be at the Growing Place again this year for the Gardener’s Art Festival on Saturday, June 21. I’d love to see you there!

February 26, 2014

I received the information in the mail yesterday for the Growing Place Art in the Garden Festival 2014 on June 21 in Naperville! Mark your calendar. I already requested my usual couple of days before the event off from work this morning so I can be ready, ready – ready! And I will start sourcing watering cans right away. I sold all the cans I had painted last season.